She could feel the pain slowly overcoming her soul. The agony, the grief, taking over all that she once thought was alive in her. She felt so empty that she was sure her whole body will echo if someone was to shake her. But she stood, rigid as though a hundred years old tree, clinging onto the only thing that made her alive; her eyeglasses. 

Through those glasses, she had seen things she had wished she could erase. She had hated the things she once loved, places she once cherished and the man she grew up to love. 

It didn’t matter who he was to her, his role in her life or even the title he possessed. She was going to take revenge, she was going to make him regret, she was going to make her father cry right before her eyes!

But what if he chose to add more pain to her aching wounds? The day he declared her married to a gateman, the strings left attaching her with him were forcefully cut off. And she was certain even if it would take her till eternity, so long as she stayed married to the gateman, her father would never know what happiness felt like!

Married To The Gateman

She took off her glasses and stubbornly folded it in her hands, "I don t want to look at you. I want you to divorce me, let me go." She cried so hard, why was it so hard for him to comprehend? He didn t love her, the last time she checked she was sure she irritated him a lot. Why was he hell bent on staying with her?

He chuckled softly, she was childish too. He stared at the way she had closed her eyes even after she had taken off the glasses but her tears still managed to run down her cheeks. "I'm sorry, Fareeda, but that s the only thing I can t do for you."

"Why?!" Her voice broke as she asked and her shoulders shuddered. Just why?

Chapter 20 13: B